Detained GlobalPost Reporter ‘Treated Well’ in Libya, Visitor Says

Our partners at GlobalPost reported Wednesday that their freelance contributor James Foley and another Western journalist detained with him in Libya, Claire Morgan Gillis, were allowed a visitor who said they were in good health and were being treated well.

Possibly slowing their release is the closure of the Turkish Embassy in Tripoli, which had been working as a go-between for organizations seeking the release of Western journalists in Libya. GlobalPost is working with other intermediaries.

A candlelight vigil to honor Foley and Gillis is planned Wednesday evening at Harvard University. An exhibit in New York City, called “Evening of Witness”, features Foley’s work.

A fourth journalist, Anton Hammerl, a photographer with South African and Austrian citizenship, was with Foley, Gillis and Brabo at the time of their capture, but was not held with them and is now missing.

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